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monadic5 | 5 years ago | on: Clearing price for supplying power to Texas grid –$31.65

Germany isn't an international embarrassment at the moment.

monadic5 | 5 years ago | on: How can you not be romantic about programming? (2020)

I don't understand why you'd put the effort in when you can write it off as a job and pursue your "romances" in your personal life. I'd guess the return in satisfaction is greater unless you're already in love with your job in some way.

monadic5 | 5 years ago | on: OpenBSD boots multi-user on Apple M1 hardware

In the sense that single user mode is used as a failure mode for the boot process, it indicates that the system was successfully able to bootstrap from the EFI to its own (critical) drivers successfully.

monadic5 | 5 years ago | on: 90k packages are stolen in NYC every day – How one building fought back

My advice: lobby for stronger personal stimulus from congress. It's hardly a mystery why this is happening.

Also if you think you're being preyed upon: you're hanging out on a forum with millionaires. This forum is far more predatory than porch theft ever could be. It's only a quirk of fate that our grift is legal and theirs is not.

monadic5 | 5 years ago | on: Cockpit – Integrated, glanceable, web-based interface for servers

It seems like an order of magnitude harder to run something on a phone, personally! i've never had to beg a company to let me run software on a server, at least not yet! ...let alone process payments through the platform.

monadic5 | 5 years ago | on: Mars becomes the 2nd planet that has more computers running Linux than Windows

Lead coating a critical and embedded component like a CPU, or even a SOC, has gotta be barely significant for the weight of the payload.

I'm guessing the faster CPU is just not necessary for the core rover, so via KISS, use the proven chips.

monadic5 | 5 years ago | on: The DreamBank, a collection of over 20k dream reports

How do you know it's a "true" memory? Does that even matter to you? I don't think it would to me! But, I'm curious how confident you are about whether you're in the same space or your brain is rapidly manufacturing the sensation.

monadic5 | 5 years ago | on: The coronavirus is here to stay – here’s what that means

> especially in light of a dozen effective vaccines (and more in the pipeline)

The US doesn't even have modern healthcare. There's no point of developing new vaccines if we're using the market—you know for sure it's going to go to fewer people than it should. For-profit medical research is fundamentally a death cult.